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Devolution by Max Brooks

76 reviews

mx_harpstar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Excrement, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Eating disorder, War, and Antisemitism

keen's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Excrement, Animal death, and Torture

Minor: War

catsy2022's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Blood, Death, and Death of parent

flokahildur's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

One of the best horror books I've read. Two words: holy shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

caseofspades's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Violence

caterina_1212's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Great concept - he could've done it with just bears or mountain lion and anyone would've liked it. But the format was really effective, and the true stories of animal attacks mixed in were really effective. So good. And the audiobook cast is nuts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Violence, Excrement, Murder, and Gore

proceduralbob's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Eating disorder and Death of parent

caffeinecrow's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Sometimes you read a book at a specific time in your life and it becomes part of your soul. Every book Max Brooks has written has managed to be one of those books for me. I'm bad at writing reviews for art I actually like, I might come back to this one someday to flesh it out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Cursing

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Excrement

Minor: War and Cultural appropriation

jt_earl's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Grief, and Death

Minor: Excrement and Injury/Injury detail

bookishobserver's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

3.0

Full disclosure: I didn’t really care about anything outside of the journal entries and skimmed a lot. When the book cut away to some of the side interviews,  I felt like I was taking a nap. That said, once the action in the journal picked up, I was hooked. I have to say, it’s a little impressive that anyone can even think to keep a diary in all of this, lol. I stopped writing in mine after a week and the worst thing I can blame it on is ‘the heat.’

I enjoyed the story once the chaos began and it was the part I savored. The action, the ‘battles,’ - those were so fun. But the rest felt like a drag, and we all know no one writes in a journal like they’re writing a book. Some pull this off better than others, but this one felt forced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence